This post is inspired by Sea Bart, the humor behind uglyships.com, the mariner who–outside of his realm of responsibility–just has way too much fun. And his humor I find infectious. If Swinburne and Hoffman were still quarantine islands outside the sixth boro and Bart were to arrive, he’d surely be put off there in a futile attempt to cure his irreverence.

He calls his finds “ugly.” I’ll classify mine as giddy-making, like this illusion of bird-as-alternate-propulsion for MSC Ornella,